(Script for Tik Tok Video 4 below first video)   @dy0czm8581ex Following Mainstream Science is Pro-Life–My Neurosurgery Experience ♬ original sound – The Neuro-Catholic MamaBear Good Morning, I’m Julie Nichols, the Neuro-Catholic MamaBear.  Today I will speak of my personal experience with Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery which is a good example of  following mainstream science and the medical consensus. In a future post, I will speak of my husband and I raising a son with Autism and how vital following... Read more

(Script for Video 3) https://www.tiktok.com/@dy0czm8581ex/video/7145572645080206638?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7145572645080206638 Hello, my name is Julie Nichols, and I am the Neuro-Catholic MamaBear. Last time I spoke from the standpoint of a clinician, but today I speak from the heart of a mom, someone who is a lifetime person of faith, and someone who has served in Christian/Catholic ministry in one way or another throughout my adult life. I want to invite all moms and dads who are or who are not religious to join, but... Read more

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Video 1 (Script for Video 1) I am a practicing contemporary Catholic (although I love traditional worship) and a Native Texan who was born in Dallas.  I am also a Pediatric Academic Language Therapist who serves children with developmental, learning, and cognitive disabilities through private practice. I am also a Licensed Dyslexia Therapist and a Certified Autism Specialist. Right now, I am working on clinical certifications in neuro-cognition and LBGTQIA+ mental health.   I hold a Bachelor’s Degree from Baylor University... Read more

Alrighty, I am going to try this. If this works well, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays from 12:30-12:40 CT, I will display a Tik Tok video about what it is like for the Diverodivergent family in society, different types of schools, and in the Church. I will also be giving some educational lessons. My Tik Tok site will be called The Neuro-Catholic MamaBear. As a pediatric Academic Language Therapist, Licensed Dyslexia Therapist, and Autism Specialist, I define Neurodivergent as an umbrella... Read more

I grew up loving Jesus and the Church, was raised traditional Episcopalian, and met my husband in college. I served as a female altar server for ten years of my traditional Episcopalian upbringing until I graduated from high school in 1990. Due to growing liberated gender and sexuality ethics in the Episcopal Church USA in the 1970s and 1980s and not fully understanding my Anglo-Catholic heritage or the LBGTQ+ spectrum, we started our family in the Baptist tradition due to... Read more

I’ve now watched the Catholic trailer below called Wonderfully Made, LBGTQ+ R(eligion) over ten times with no less tears than the first time I watched it.  My ultra-conservative background in the Anglican Church of Nigeria and then in conservative trad Catholic circles awakened my eyes to the damage that can be done when Church teaching is forcefully applied to the point of pushing people into suicide and lasting spiritual and psychological harm. I am not an advocate for dismissing Church... Read more

As a gentle reminder, I am a pediatric specialty therapist with a variety of credentialing and specialties.  I serve children with learning, developmental, and cognitive disabilities.  You can read more about my profession on my do-it-yourself wixsite after this paragraph.  I addition to serving children in therapy sessions through my private practice, I also serve as the Catholic ministry lead for the largest ecumenical religious trauma recovery group in the world for LBGTQIA+ children and their families.  I help Catholic... Read more

Happy Sunday! In my last post, I wrote an article about my journey of becoming an affirming Catholic LBGTQIA+ pediatric specialty therapist.  Considering how conservative my family’s religious background has been over the last 30 years of my life, arriving to a fully-affirming position as a professional took a tremendous amount of work for me, for my patients’ lives depended on it. In short, affirmation of LBGTQIA+ people is about life, death, and human dignity, not sexual activity. Sexual activity... Read more

In this blog today, I want to start sharing my publications about the topic of inclusion and neurodiversity in the institutional church and broader society.  In addition to writing regularly for Patheos, I am a guest contributor for a smaller faith-based publisher called Faith-on-View and a new inclusive ministry in the Catholic Church called Outreach. I professionally define neurodiverse as anyone who does not fit the majority of the population on any spectrum of human psychology, including gender and sexuality... Read more